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Editor: Chris Winter, Executive
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Happy
Anniversary Earth Day April 22nd marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. As an event, Earth Day is marked spontaneously across Canada by community groups, schools and businesses alike. It is truly an example of a celebration that has become as universal as Mother's Day and Valentines. Bravo. As an organization, Earth Day Canada is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. It has become a leading organization in helping organize schools and communities for positive change. Earth Day Canada is one of my favourite organizations -- largely because they are great at collaborating and working together as part of a cooperative movement.
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After Earth Day
The purpose of Earth Day is to
inspire change. So here we go.
weconserveTV.ca is a site where
you can post conservation videos and
build momentum for change all year
round.
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 Jane's
Walk, May 1+2Get out and walk! http://www.janeswalk.net The fourth annual Jane's Walk - the community walks that have gone international! The great thing about this year is that you can find Jane's Walks in communities across Ontario, including Flesherton, Coboconk, Kingston, Sault Ste Marie, Peterborough, Hamilton, Cambridge, Kitchener, London, Guelph, and over 115 in Toronto! Way to go everyone! Here's an article on Jane's Walk by Suzanne Elston that ran in Sun Media papers last weekend... http://www.lfpress.com/life/greenplanet/2010/04/23/13703341.html For a selection of videos on Jane
Jacobs and Jane's Walk, go to
www.weconservetv.ca
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WWF schools
scholarship http://wwf.ca/greencommunitygrants
The deadline is May 3rd -- so get
cracking! |
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I've updated the home page for the We Conserve website to profile some of our amazing websites and services.
We are also Twitter active,
and on Facebook...
This is a good opportunity to express our thanks
to
The Beer Store for their amazing support over the
past year. For an overview of their environmental leadership, go
here:
http://www.thebeerstore.ca/tbs-environmental.html
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One other quick
note -- I help judge the Toyota Earth Day Scholarship program.
All the nominees are anonymous, so it was a pleasant surprise to
see that one of the Ontario scholarship winners was
Anika Roberts-Stahlbrand, the
daughter of Lori Stahlbrand (one of our individual members and
the Executive Director of Local Food Plus), and Wayne Roberts
(project coordinator of the Toronto Food Policy Council).
Congratulations to Anika and her proud parents! You
can see a video Anika produced on 
WWF-Canada is proud
to announce the Green CommUnity School Grants Program. Through
the generous support of Loblaw Companies Ltd, WWF-Canada will
grant $600,000 over the next three years, up to $200,000 a year,
to Canadian elementary and secondary schools. The grants will
help reduce a community’s impact on the environment, increase
understanding of environmental issues and solutions, stimulate
environmental leadership, and inspire students and communities
to take action. 
